The Voyage of the Crooked: A Connected History of the Gulf and Indian Ocean
Schedule
Mon Feb 20 2023 at 06:30 pm
Location
NYU Abu Dhabi | Abu Dhabi, AZ
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This talk charts out an oceanic microhistory, grounded in the voyages of the dhow called The Crooked from the port of Kuwait, captained by the Nakhoda ‘Abdulmajeed Al-Failakawi. It anchors itself in Al-Failakawi’s logbook and looks out from the deck of the dhow onto a world of texts, letters, accounts, and other writings by Nakhodas. From these writings we can gather histories that have been scattered along the coasts of Arabia, South Asia, and East Africa, and we can gain a sharper sense of how actors understood this world of circulation and inscribed it into their voyages.Speaker
Fahad Bishara, Associate Professor of History and Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Studies, University of Virginia
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Where is it happening?
NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Abu Dhabi- Saadiyat Island,Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
